Eey, a fellow Classic Shell user. Between Classic Shell and this little hack, I've managed to strip almost all of the bullshit out of explorer. Also highly recommend Wizmouse and XWinMove for making explorer a little more pleasant to work with.

VS is a buggy Capriccio port for 7, wall can be found on interfacelift's most recent list.

Ok, you're all most probably just tired of all those mac knock-offs and every screenshot having a dock in it. But the fact is, I was one of the first people to get my hand on it, and have loved it since. Also, this is a slight variation of the normal mac theme, its called 'Brushed'. Check it out.. (Sorry for the big size)

Ok, you're all most probably just tired of all those mac knock-offs and every screenshot having a dock in it. But the fact is, I was one of the first people to get my hand on it, and have loved it since. Also, this is a slight variation of the normal mac theme, its called 'Brushed'. Check it out.. (Sorry for the big size)

You also forgot to attach the image.

Anyway, here's my most recent one, with the background image (Periodic Table of Typefaces) being available here.

I've fiddled with the Start menu icon a couple times, but I'd agree that in general my tinkering with the Windows UI is much diminished from the XP days. For me it's because the Aero theme is nice and unobtrusive, so I don't have to work to harmonize it with other elements.

Speaking of desktops, I posted this over to G+ earlier today. The background came off of reddit's BMW board.

You can get the background image from the car's owner on the reddit thread

All joking aside it was just a observation by me. There used to be some really different desktops from the default. Now not so much

That being said I've been using a different visual style myself nowdays. It's called the windows 8 vs and it's a pretty close clone to aero from the win 8 developer preview. I think the slightly less shine and everything squared off looks a little better then win 7's default.

Using the classic menu over the XP menu I can understand; there really wasn't much advantage of the XP menu over the classic one. But not using the searchable menu? Aside from being scared of change, what reason is there to not use something which clearly makes it easier and faster to find anything in your start menu?

Using the classic menu over the XP menu I can understand; there really wasn't much advantage of the XP menu over the classic one. But not using the searchable menu? Aside from being scared of change, what reason is there to not use something which clearly makes it easier and faster to find anything in your start menu?

I personally agree, but everybody's different. Maybe they find a hierarchal format easier, which the classic menu might work better for, I don't know. Point is, it's how they work most efficiently that's most important to them.